Mod 4 - Sydney S

Patrick Henry

• Patrick Henry was not at the Constitutional Convention.
• Henry didn't sign the Constitution.
• In 1776, Patrick Henry was elected governor of Virginia.
• Henry was governor of Virginia for three terms and then Thomas Jefferson took over.
• He was then re-elected in 1784.
• Patrick Henry was elected a member of the Virginia delegation to the Constitutional Convention.
• Henry was for the strongest government in the individual states and a weak federal government.
• He didn't like how the convention was conducted in secret.
• Henry supported a bill of rights and became reconciled to the federal government after these amendments were added.
• Henry wrote in a series of essays called "The Antifederalist Papers".
• In 1788, when the Virginia convention called to ratify the new federal Constitution, he opposed.
• President Washington appointed him Secretary of State in 1795 but he declined the office.
• Henry didn't personally like Thomas Jefferson.